Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes

<p>Reading Contemporary Serial Television Universes provides a new framework—the metaphor of the narrative ecosystem—for the analysis of serial television narratives. Contributors use this metaphor to address the ever-expanding and evolving structure of narratives far beyond their usual spatial and temporal borders in general and in reference to specific series. Other scholarly approaches consider each narrative as composed of modular elements which combine to create a bigger picture. The narrative ecosystem approach on the other hand argues that each portion of the narrative world contains all of the main elements that characterize the world as a whole such as narrative tensions production structures creative dynamics and functions. The volume details the implications of the narrative ecosystem for narrative theory and the study of seriality audiences and fandoms production and the analysis of the products themselves.</p>